On Wed, 27 May 2020 at 15:15, Andrew Harvey <andrew.harv...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The way I see it is there are two main views of highway=footway,path in > OSM. > > 1. Is that footway is urban and path is remote/forest > 2. Is that footway is for primary walking paths (including remote/forest > paths) and that path is for non-specified usage or mixed use paths > (including urban paths). > > This does not describe the situation - *highway=footway* is "urban", implies foot=designated, usage can be expanded with tags like bicycle=yes|permisive||designated to describe mid-use ways - *highway=cycleway *implies bicycle=designated, usage can be widened with tags like foot=yes|permissive|designated to describe mixed-use ways (this - *path* is being used for two completly different things: (a) a "hiking" path, mostly in non-urban situations, including mountain hiking (b) with the additional tagging foot=designated plus bicycle=designated plus segregated=yes|no as a mixed use foot-cycle-way All of these are widely used and I think it will be impossible to undo the tagging. What has been proposed is to add a new way of tagging of what with the present tagging could be:described with highway=path plus sac_scale=hiking with a new combination of highway=path plus path=hiking
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